Hallelujah. it's getting correctly rotated. Some internal matrix pointer juggling was messed up due to how the scene rendering to the texture works Long story short: RLGL.state.currentMatrix not pointing to the right matrix. Lots of fun figuring all that out. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Since last Monday I am trying to upload 1 short video per day about my gamedev progress. I just looked it up and it turns out that yesterday was day 214 since I began working on 8-bitBot. Let's see how far I get with these videos 🙂 https://youtube.com/shorts/v4tzNmWB7zw?feature=share #gamedev […]

Two scenes on one screen with two different lighting settings :D Tme to think how to get the monitor into the scene... And then I'll have to revisit the bots and do something so they can have different animations. Fun. Typical engine stuff; Which I happen to not have 🙃 #gamedev #indiedev #raylib

This is probably fine ...

I worked out a simple lighting system that should help me with making my cutscene work :) #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Making the light settings configurable is more work than working out the light effect in the shader; but being able to change the light color like that and what a profound effect it has on the atmosphere is pretty motivating to expose all those values properly. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Devlog 10 is live. I started designing the rescue intro cutscene - a bot gets caught in a thunderstorm, and I’m figuring out how to turn that into a playable story moment. Watch it here: https://youtu.be/_2m0swyqXgw #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Simple, yet effective; it's just a (tweaked) spotlight lighting function on top of the shader. I really like the dim atmosphere it creates :D #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Back to some shader programming/debugging .... at least I know now how to make a disco dance room. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

I started working on a cut scene for the game intro. This video sketches out the rough script for it. Tech-wise, I am building on the tutorial system and I can render now multiple scenes on screen and have animate the view ports and cameras. 🧵 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

After nearly 2 weeks of working on gamepad code and it still not being fully done (still bugs and editor support parts missing), I want to take a pause from that and instead work on implementing a cutscene (that I can also as part of a trailer). SO ... here I go. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Crossing off the UI parts here that have game pad support. Going for the final ones - though: they won't be easy, some of those tabs have world interactions, making this a more difficult task. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

"Found a bug?" Are you mocking me? Why are even half the text missing?! Jeez. Just another day in #gamedev.

The automatic ui element navigation path determination had a weird bug where elements would not be connected with straight but diagonal lines. Took me half an hour to understand that there was no tie breaker in place and the elements had identical scores for connections. #gamedev

Editing the level with a gamepad is beginning to work! Now I only have to do this for the 8 other tabs 🫠! #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

I'm still working on the gamepad support feature and been fixing and improving lots of things about it. Now I am trying to make the editor functional. I have a conceptional idea how the world editing might work... so maybe that'll work by the end of today. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Been trying to finalize the gamepad tasks today. - Dedicated icons for XBox/PS/keyboard controls - Fixed issues with automatic navigation graph creation - Added keyboard controller emulation - Wrote/improved documentation #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

After quite some amount of stitching stuff together, I am about to be able to display gamepad icons that reflect the controller. Still much left to do... #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Adding more input icons from Kenney's input icon asset - so I can display the correct icons when using different input methods. I also realize now that this feature is also an accessibility feature. Didn't think of that before, but more than happy about that! #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Me, right now, trying to figure out how to fix an issue in the navigation graph of my game. If I'm not becoming crazy, then just because I already am. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Only flagging the interaction regions here and letting the algorithm set the connections - it seems to work and it's quite a bit less effort to set up for sure. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

I worked this morning on making the help documentation compatible with gamepad navigation and it seems to be working good enough that I think I should move on. There's now an automatic navigation link system I can maybe repurpose in other circumstances. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

8-bitBot reaching 8-bit limit of wishlist counter. Not stellar after 4 months, but I'm working on it. Reminds me that I still need to make a trailer video 😫 In case you want to help bringing the counter to its 10-bit boundary […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

Here's my #devlog video 9! I'm diving a bit into details on how the gamepad support works under the hood and in which parts it's already functioning: https://youtu.be/6QJU4jN11vg It would be great if you could Like & Subscribe to give it an initial boost 😅 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib #vlog

Adding a debug view for the gamepad navigation... and I am not even done yet 🫠 And some features that players would expect (I assume) required some interesting solutions... #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

I am using the font version of @kenney 's gamepad input icons - and since I have outline and shadow support for fonts... I realize I can use it for the gamepad button overlays🥳 It looks now so much more distinct and easier to make out! #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Testing controller input handling. The right stick can control the target cursor while the left stick controls the focused element that can be triggered via pressing the A button. One thing left to do: Drag & drop instruction tokens... this'll be interesting 😬 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

When using the controller, I am rendering the gamepad button mappings on the UI elements they map to. Do you think this is a good or bad approach? I don't have much experience with playing games using a game controller. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

In process of adding a debug panel for gamepad debugging. Turns out my xbox controller has a drift on the right stick. Is this fixable 😭? (I rarely use gamepads for playing games) #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Testing the settings panel with a gamepad. Quite a bit of work to pepper the code with the required meta information to allow the navigation directions. I thought about some automatic system to handle this, but it's probably less work to do this manually for all my interfaces. #gamedev #indiedev

Testing controller inputs; - The moving controller cursor moves the mouse cursor - nice: automatically triggers the hover state of the buttons - When moving the mouse, the controller cursor is hidden Next: controller "hotkey" trigger support. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

First time running #8-bitBot on my #SteamDeck. Works pretty much straight away. Now I need to make the entire game controllable via game controllers ... oh boy! #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

First test to try out game pad input handling. #gamedev #solodev #raylib #indiedev

Testing the gamepad font icons of @kenney in my game using my SDL font rendering implementation. As long as the font size is not too big, this should work. Very useful! Here's the link: https://kenney.nl/assets/input-prompts #gamedev #solodev #raylib

Last things doing for my small #ggj26 project; Due to circumstances I didn't manage to make an actual game - but the toy itself is fairly fun to use; I'll try to see having it uploaded to itch io. #gamedev

Angry bird? Toying around with what I made yesterday/today for #ggj26. It's something... just not sure if my original idea is the right direction for what this became. #gamedev

Got this far, so far. #ggj26 #gamedev

Searching through my photos for some wall textures for the #GGJ26 and stumbled over this here. Made me chuckle when seeing it :D #ggj26 #gamedev

#ggj25 has started on Monday already, but I'll start working on it now... Not a very original idea I have, but I like the idea :) Testing out the engine of @seb_degraff #gamedev

Organizing my todos using markdown ... then realizing: My game has a markdown viewer 😅 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

I just uploaded a new devlog video, showing how the gameplay in my game works :) https://youtu.be/ceJyZYMoc6Q #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

I have this sudden urge to give the monitor a laser pointer that turns the cursor into a laser point light to highlight stuff. And: Do you know the answer :D? #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

I love the way the text waves into place. More so even since it works with embedded sprites and other features. I still want to align this a bit better. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

To quick-showcase what I did in my devlog in my video, I need to add just one more text markdown instruction. Just one more, I swear. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

The short sequence I managed to do till this point; it's took me like a day to get there. Added smoothing options for transitions, the camera motion, the ability to draw the sprites like that and stepping through the simulation... I hope this all is worth the trouble. #gamedev #solodev #raylib

Tutorial steps can now animate parameters over time beyond their steps. Don't ask how it's done, it's just another hack inside a project full of hacks. I think it's insane at this point that it's all still working. But only results count... #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Testing out special tutorial mode camera settings and tutorial render configurations... Steps can define render commands to draw gradients, texts or sprites and such... let's see where this goes. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Font integration is quite done (there's never a "fully done") and I am looking into the tutorial sys (again). Doing the devlog videos and using the tutorial system for it gave me some ideas for another constantly pushed task: The trailer. So I am trying to kill two birds with one stone now. #gamedev

The fact that I can use different fonts (types, italics, bold, ...) in one print blows my mind. In case that sounds weird, this is my own "engine" (I don't think it qualifies as an engine, but it's not too far away anymore) #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

🥹 It looks like I am getting it done. I did NOT believe this. Different fonts. Later I will try to have different font sizes. And shadows. And other stuff. TIP: Get the font rendering working BEFORE doing stuff like markdown. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib